Re: non-pristine sources under pool/
Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp> writes:
> Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> writes:
>
> > This is a snippet of my XML file which describes the file
> > that is located on a gnu mirror.
> >
> > <file>
> > <name>bash-2.05b.tar.gz</name>
> > <size>1956216</size>
> > <md5>5238251b4926d778dfe162f6ce729733</md5>
> > </file>
> >
> > This file,
> >
> > http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05b-3.dsc
> >
> > tells me:
> >
> > 95e836e7adf20a3cbc429609b99ff024 1944574 bash_2.05b.orig.tar.gz
> >
> > As you can see the size and the md5-sum differs.
>
> I have noticed that the tarballs created by `make dist` and
> dpkg-buildpackage differ. It has primarily to do with the way
> symlinks in the source package are handled. Have a look at the
> output of `tar tzf` on both tarballs. This may be source of the
> difference you observe.
s/tzf/tzvf/, naturally :-(
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